Union Pacific’s triple track main between Gibbon and North Platte in central Nebraska is the busiest line for freight trains in this country and carries more tonnage than any rail line in the World – over 300 million tons per year. This historic line, part of the first transcontinental railroad, is also part of UP’s central corridor that stretches from Chicago to Ogden where trains can take one of four routes to Seattle, Oakland, or Los Angeles. To paraphrase the title of a best selling book on the building of the UP, “there is nothing like it in the world”. 20,000 ton coal trains powered by distributed power, long manifests, hot “Z” intermodal trains, and pooled power from all Class I railroads in the country - they’re all here on this incredible piece of track. Just about any superlative you can think of applies to UP’s triple track main. The current recession has taken a significant bite out of the traffic on the triple track main, but the economy is beginning to recover and we still saw 124 trains in twenty-four hours on this busiest piece of track for freight trains on this continent. And today’s trains are longer and heavier than those seen during our last visit to the triple track main in 2001. This program shows all the trains for over twenty-four hours around Kearney, Nebraska on UP’s triple track main in October of 2010. “UP’s Triple Track Main in 2010” is a 3 disk set and is 4 hours and 32 minutes in length.  This DVD has the option of being watched with or without narration.

Union Pacific’s triple track main between Gibbon and North Platte in central Nebraska is the busiest line for freight trains in this country and carries more tonnage than any rail line in the World – over 300 million tons per year. This historic line, part of the first transcontinental railroad, is also part of UP’s central corridor that stretches from Chicago to Ogden where trains can take one of four routes to Seattle, Oakland, or Los Angeles. To paraphrase the title of a best selling book on the building of the UP, “there is nothing like it in the world”. 20,000 ton coal trains powered by distributed power, long manifests, hot “Z” intermodal trains, and pooled power from all Class I railroads in the country - they’re all here on this incredible piece of track. Just about any superlative you can think of applies to UP’s triple track main. The current recession has taken a significant bite out of the traffic on the triple track main, but the economy is beginning to recover and we still saw 124 trains in twenty-four hours on this busiest piece of track for freight trains on this continent. And today’s trains are longer and heavier than those seen during our last visit to the triple track main in 2001. This program shows all the trains for over twenty-four hours around Kearney, Nebraska on UP’s triple track main in October of 2010. “UP’s Triple Track Main in 2010” is a 3 disk set and is 4 hours and 32 minutes in length.  This DVD has the option of being watched with or without narration.

The former Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy’s line to Denver west of Lincoln, Nebraska, now part of BNSF’s Chicago to Denver line, was the heart and sole of the Burlington Route. Always a favorite of Burlington executives, this line hosted the Burlington’s famous Denver and California Zephyr passenger trains and the Chicago to Denver hot shot freight trains, and was among the first lines on the Burlington to get centralized traffic control over sixty years ago. In spite of the favoritism shown it by Burlington officials, the CB&Q’s Denver line west of Lincoln was never a major freight route and hosted as many passenger trains as freight trains as late as 1960. Today this line still hosts Amtrak’s California Zephyr and carries more freight business than ever. More freight trains traverse this line today than anytime since at least World War II. This program shows all the trains for 24 hours and then some on BNSF’s Denver line between Hastings and McCook in southwestern Nebraska in November of 2008.  65 minutes.  The DVD of this program has the option of being watched with and without narration.

The former Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy’s line to Denver west of Lincoln, Nebraska, now part of BNSF’s Chicago to Denver line, was the heart and sole of the Burlington Route. Always a favorite of Burlington executives, this line hosted the Burlington’s famous Denver and California Zephyr passenger trains and the Chicago to Denver hot shot freight trains, and was among the first lines on the Burlington to get centralized traffic control over sixty years ago. In spite of the favoritism shown it by Burlington officials, the CB&Q’s Denver line west of Lincoln was never a major freight route and hosted as many passenger trains as freight trains as late as 1960. Today this line still hosts Amtrak’s California Zephyr and carries more freight business than ever. More freight trains traverse this line today than anytime since at least World War II. This program shows all the trains for 24 hours and then some on BNSF’s Denver line between Hastings and McCook in southwestern Nebraska in November of 2008.  65 minutes.  The DVD of this program has the option of being watched with and without narration.

Union Pacific's triple track main between Gibbon and North Platte in central Nebraska is the busiest line for freight trains in the World and handles by far the most tonnage - 300 million gross tons per year.  19,000 ton coal trains powered by distributed power, long manifests, hot "Z" intermodal trains, and winged SD70M's - they're all here on this incredible piece of track.  In October 2001 we caught 144 trains on this line in 24 hours and except for being doubled they are all on this epic video.  4 hours, 40 minutes.   3 DVD-R, 2 tape set.

Ever wonder which railroad has the fastest trains.  This video shows the fastest freight trains in the U.S. and Canada during the 1990's.  Many of the changes in freight train scheduling will be shown, and the schedules will be compared to the timings for previous decades.  137 minutes.  2 DVD-R, 1 tape set

Gibbon, NE, 175 miles west of Omaha on the UP main, is the location of one of the World's great rail junctions.  More tonnage passes through Gibbon than any junction in the World.  Gibbon averages nearly 120 trains in 24 hours.  This video shows 24 hours af action around Gibbon in May of 1998, at a time when the UP's operations through there were near gridlock, and many trains needed recrews.  Three DVD, two tape set.  Four Hours. 

With over 70 freights in 24 hours, Lincoln is one of BNSF's busiest terminals.  This video shows action in March of 1998 at both ends of Lincoln's Hobson Yard, daylight action on the Kansas City line centered around Firth Hill, and then nearly 24 hours of action on the Chicago line between Lincoln and Ashland.  All BNSF color schemes are shown including new Heritage scheme SD70MACs.  154 minutes. 

This tape show 24 hours of action in May 1996 on BNSF's central coal corridor around Broken Bow, Nebraska on the edge of the sandhills.  Most of the  50 trains a day on this line are coal trains from the Powder River Basin with nearly half of them pulled by SD70MAC's.  146 minutes. 

The UP between Gibbon and O'Fallons in Nebraska carries the most tonnage of any rail line in the world.    U.S. 30 runs alongside this line which was featured in the November. 1995 Trains.  DPU trains, new AC's - they're all on this tape which shows the 130 trains that were seen east of North Platte in 25 hours in May of 1996.  4 hours, 6 minutes.  Three disk DVD-R set, two VHS tape set.